<p>chez: NYC isn’t too far and it’s accessible if students really want to go. However, it’s just far enough so that the on-campus activities become more attractive. In my 4 yrs, I probably went into NYC about a dozen times – some probably do more, some less. </p>
<p>Yale knows how to read and study each student’s transcript, knowing not all schools or even similar classes are the same. They’ll know what data to tease out. GL on your DD’s wait.</p>
<p>Would they really have the time to do that with each and every applicant? Also, my daughter has not been called for an interview but she did meet with a friend that graduated from Yale while we were in NY. Could that be why she has not been contacted for a local interview with an alumn?</p>
<p>chezmere: My daughter applied SCEA back in August, but was still never contacted for an interview. It seems to just come down to availability with alumni interviewers… like T26E4 in his area.</p>
<p>It also worth mentioning that they sometimes disregard rank (to an extent). Some schools that rank have a large pool of extremely smart kids who have GPA’s separated by tiny increments such as 0.001. At that point, it wouldn’t really matter what your gpa is relative to everyone else; they look closely at honors/AP classes and see what you earned in those.</p>
<p>My daughter goes to a good public high school where 0-2 person a year gets into Harvard or Yale or Princeton. (I don’t think a ton apply but I really don’t know.) Curious about your schools; public, private, boarding, magnet? How often do students from your hs get into HYP?</p>
<p>milkweed: In my D’s case… large public high school in FL. Few apply to NE elite schools. Last year, one got in to Harvard and one into Penn. Not sure how many applied there or elsewhere though…</p>
<p>The reason I ask this about GPA is I have read about the academic index and how it is used to evaluate not only athletes but non athletes as well. Some say that class rank is used along with test scores, others say that GPA is used. I am hoping for my D sake it would be with a recalculated GPA ( she received Bs in every PE class she was forced to take, lol) but got mostly As in all her AP classes (10) which brought her class rank way down. The whole idea of class rank confounds me because some kids at her school there are kids that are getting weighted credit for middle school classes they took that qualified as high school credit, therefore padding their rank. My D ranked 78th in her class of 370 students with a weighted GPA of 4.2. Without the PE she would be higher. Any thoughts on ranking? Our school says that they are planning on dropping ranking because schools are no longer using it very much but it seems that the Ivies still do…</p>
<p>Per the NY Times, it’s now calculated with GPA not rank.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/12/25/sports/25ivy-GFX.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/12/25/sports/25ivy-GFX.html</a></p>
<p>“Class rank was once part of the formula, … But because many high schools stopped reporting class rankings in recent years, it was eliminated over the summer.”</p>
<p><a href=“Before Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League, Some Math - The New York Times”>Before Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League, Some Math - The New York Times;
<p>I doubt they care about that formula for non-athletes.</p>
<p>WWWard – do you think students who come from less well known high schools are at a disadvantage when it comes to admissions to Ivies and teh like?</p>
<p>My school sends about 35-45 students to Harvard and Yale each year. Last year, around 140/350 kids in our class of 2013 attended an Ivy+Stanford. Pretty much everyone goes to a top 40 school, though.</p>
<p>However, we never know who they’ll (especially Yale) take. At times, it seems a bit random. They work us too hard here, though. So, a lot of people deserve it.</p>
<p>And we do NOT rank.</p>
<p>Also, having recently asked my admissions councilor (they usually know what they’re talking about), the academic index thing is way overhyped.</p>
<p>lol Stuyvesant?</p>
<p>milkweed: Generally speaking… yes. But it could likely depend on the personal history or experience of the readers or assigned admissions reps. In my D’s case, the primary admissions rep that handles our area went to a similar HS in the same metro area, so we are hopeful that may help to a degree.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t rank, but if it did, we’d tear ourselves to pieces competing. I’m not sure how to describe my grade. In general, a lot of people are fine with drinking/cutting class/even smoking weed on occasion, but the same people will get basically all A’s and care about school a lot. And lots of us go to good colleges, especially Princeton (5-10 ish per year) because we live so close by.</p>
<p>We’re on the opposite end of the spectrum from MikeNY5: Our rural public school, as near as we can tell, has never sent anyone to an Ivy, a Little Ivy or any place even close. In fact, no student here has ever even taken a Subject Test before my son. The 16th will be interesting.</p>
<p>my school does indeed rank…and we are a top 10 high school in the USA so the pressure is always on :(</p>
<p>don’t forget everyone to sign up on the pledge thread (if you want to)</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1580720-official-yale-class-2018-scea-pledge-thread-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1580720-official-yale-class-2018-scea-pledge-thread-3.html</a></p>
<p>Last night, I dreamt I got a postcard that just flat-out said “DENIED” in big red letters. :/</p>
<p>The anticipation is killing me… less than a week.</p>
<p>Going back two pages here but:
About two weeks after I submitted my app, I sent an update with two new pieces of information to the email that was listed on the website for app updates. I included all information I needed to, including my name, birth, Yale ID #, etc. However, unlike a person two pages back, I never got a response from them confirming that they had received it and that I was all set. Should I be nervous or do you think they got it?</p>